The Brookhaven leader., 1887-04-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

IEISONAL AND POLITICAL.
A SETTLEMENT Of the Afghan question Is
reported to have been. effected. BY the
terms of this settlement England assents
to the Russian demand for that branch Of
the Oxus, now held by tho Afgaans. in ex-
change for which concessions will be made
Of territory on the Northwest frontier.
THE seventeen birthday of King William
of Holland, was cclebri ted in Amsterdam
Oh the 18th by "a grand procession led by the
King and Queen.
President CLEVELAND so il is announced
from Atlanta, Ga, has accepted an invita-
tion to attend the Piedmont fair in that city
IN October
THE Russian royal family have abandoned
their proposed iourneyto the Crlmea owing
to grave reports from the interio-'
THE three constitutional Anrcadments.
voted on in California, were all defeated.
The frat provided a method for the selcc-
tion Of Chief Justice Of .ne Supreme Court /:
the secoL%1 Tor an increase of salaries of tho
supreme Judges, and the third, cities over
iO,0OO population to be empowered to make
their own city charter, The proposed new
charter for San Francisco wns also de-
fea-ed
FHE Central American Diet, recently held
IA Guatemala, agreed to three treaties
which are to be recognized as law by the
FIVE Central American Republics The
treaties provide for amity, arbitration and
unity against foreign CnCrOaChments
THE Pope has instructed the nunC;o at
Paris TO assure the French Government
that the friendly relations between Pru ssia
aud the Vatican in no wise indicates hos
tility on the part Of the Vatican towards
France.
BlsuoP HARKISs, the Catholic prelate Of
Providence, Il. l., was Consecratcd on the
l4th by Archbishop Williams of Boston.
Az anti-coerCiOn meeting was held the
other night by lrishmen and sympathizers
In the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Ad-
dresses were delivered, letters of regret
were read from Governor Hill and others,
and the usual resolutions passed and or
dered sent to Mr.. Gladstone.
CONGREsSHAS SPRINGER presided at a
meeting of lriSh-Americans in Washington
on the l4th to protest against coercion.
SEVERAL Soudan Arab tribes have re-
volted from the Mahdis authority, and
proclaimed one of the sheikhs Sultan.
lT Is asserted in Berlin that Russia has
declined a profTered alliance with France.
THE debate in the British House OF Com
mons on the Irish Coercion bill created
considerable excitement on the 10Th. Sex
ton and Healy called Major Saunderson a
liar.
IT was stated at both the State and Navy
Departments that there was no truth III the
dispatch from Key West that Commodore
| Green, of the United States steamer Yam
tic, officially forbade the English men-of-
war at Port Au Prince to carry out the
threat of seiZing Tortugas Island Secre-
tary Whitney never heard Of such thing
until he saw the dispatch in New York
paper.
THE Conservative members Of the lower
house Of the Prussian Diet have decided to
support the Ecclesiastical bill.
THE French have occupied Johanna
island, the principal Of the Contoro grour
in the Mozambique channel
MONsIpNOE QUINN. Vicar General of the
Catholic diocese of New York, died in Paris
on the 18th.